A problem that really bothers me is the amount of hunger and starvation going on in other countries around the world. Being a U.S citizen, we have the privilege of never running out of food and always having a great amount of food to choose from. If we are hungry for fast food we have a million choices right along the side of a road close to home. If we want a steak we would go to Outback, and if we wanted seafood we would go to Red Lobster. We never have a deprivation of food...never. People in the poorer parts of Africa never have those choices we do. Most of them live in poverty and when they get food it is a blessing. Thanksgiving dinner and Christmas dinners are something that they pray and hope to receive...they do not have the money or the grocery stores to present them with the ingredients to make a great big dinner like that. I see so many commercials and specials on the starvation going on in poorer countries and it makes me so sad and disgusted. We take so much for granted...if we don't like a certain food we eat we just throw it all away, no keeping it for leftovers. Every time I see that happen I think of the starving kids living in poverty, they would give anything to have those leftovers we just threw away. They would eat anything given to them.
One way we could fix this current problem would be sending over some of our mass productions of food we (the U.S) make every day. Just give them three meals a day and maybe we could start up a few markets that have certain price deals so that it is easier for the poorer citizens to afford. I just think it is rediculous that a country as prosperous and as obese as us cannot make an effort to do more for these poorer countries.
